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“The HIV community — health care providers, social service workers, activists, health advocates, policy officials, researchers and people living with HIV who provide trusted peer support to others — has spent the last 40 years honing a holistic approach to public health that takes seriously the inequities that drive epidemics.” Celeste Watkins-Hayes on what the HIV safety net can teach us about the fight against COVID-19.
Detroit Free Press
“Biden's criminal justice plan focuses on community crime prevention and expanding accountability of officer misconduct, but if he wants to help eradicate the excessive enforcement tactics we witnessed police using this summer, he need not look further than the 1970s.” Christian Davenport argues President-Elect Biden has a unique opportunity to change police tactics.
Business Insider
“They're just disproportionately likely to hold the kinds of jobs we needed to send people home from.” Betsey Stevenson calls the impact of the pandemic a triple punch for women.
CNN
“The seeds for what happened started long ago, when even over the summer the president was warning his backers that there was going to be election fraud: laying the groundwork for after the election when they were challenging the legitimacy of the outcome.” Jonathan Hanson provides historical context to Capitol violence.
WXYZ
“Our laws and the Constitution itself depend on a belief that those who violate them will be punished. Many lawmakers have condemned the president’s role in inciting the attack on the Capitol. If they do not follow up their words with real enforcement—removing the president from office—then they tell Americans that these laws do not matter.” Jenna Bedar on accountability for the violence in DC.
National Interest
“This is a bill that's going to provide extra support for the unemployed, who really are among the most needy right now, all the way through till the middle of March, when we know the vaccine's not really going to be widely available until the middle or later in the year. So if we were trying to build a bridge to the other side, I'm afraid this is only the first half of the bridge.” Justin Wolfers on the latest COVID-19 relief bill passed in December.
NPR
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